Renaissance Accelerated Reader vs. Renaissance Star Assessments

Renaissance Accelerated Reader

86 Reviews and Ratings

Renaissance Star Assessments

98 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Renaissance Accelerated Reader	Score9.9 out of 10	N/A	Renaissance Accelerated Reader® is designed to save educators time by empowering them with Learnalytics® to make differentiating independent and close reading practice effortless – all while maintaining the flexibility necessary to fit within existing classroom routines. Students are engaged in reading self-selected authentic books and articles. Short comprehension quizzes and built-in close reading practice activities, combined with automatic and educator feedback, keep students…	N/A
Renaissance Star Assessments	Score8.7 out of 10	N/A	Star Assessments are a suite of assessments for reading, math, and early literacy, in both English and Spanish, boasting users among over 30,000 schools. Star Assessments helps educators to gain accurate insights into student learning, growth, and achievement—so they can help all learners reach their full potential. The full Star Assessment suite includes the computer-adaptive Star Reading (K–12), Star Math (K–12), and Star Early Literacy (pre-K–3) assessments; a formative assessment tool, Star…	N/A

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	Renaissance Accelerated Reader	Renaissance Star Assessments
Considered Both Products	Renaissance Learning Stacia Guarisco High School English Teacher at Tri Junior-Senior High School (Education Management, 51-200 employees) Chose Renaissance Accelerated Reader Renaissance Accelerated Reader offers so much more than accountability. If used properly, Renaisssance Accelerated Reader provides statistics and data teachers can use to align lessons and group students. The program offers visual reports and goal setting as well as rewards. As … Incentivized Helpful? Vivian Dawson Paraprofession Special Education at City Schools Of Decatur, GA (F.AVE) (Education Management, 501-1000 employees) Chose Renaissance Accelerated Reader I have not used any of the products listed. However, AR has been my choice of product. My school system choice this product because it interfaces well with all other reading and testing programs that have been purchased. It is an excellent product, but that is a given since it … Incentivized Helpful? Kerri Ziegler Special Education Department Chair at Noblesville Schools (Primary/Secondary Education, 51-200 employees) Chose Renaissance Accelerated Reader STAR assessments work well with [Renaissance] Accelerated Reader. The STAR assessment can inform students what material they will be able to comprehend and help guide teachers when they are trying to help students find books to read. STAR assessments also help teachers focus … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Renaissance Accelerated Reader This is the only program like this which I have used. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Renaissance Accelerated Reader I have also used Whooo's Reading, which is free, but felt that it was extremely lacking when compared to AR. It was easier for students to type a certain amount of words in their answer to confuse the auto grader and to pass a quiz without much information in their answers. I … Incentivized Helpful? Kelsie Haggard Teacher at Brorson School (Education Management, 1-10 employees) Chose Renaissance Accelerated Reader I have not personally evaluated any other programs similar to Accelerated Reader. AR was the program introduced to me when I started teaching and since I have never had any issues with it, I have never been driven to find another program with similar offerings. Incentivized Helpful? Jody Steinhaus Elementary Teacher in Professional Services at Portage Community School District (Education Management, 51-200 employees) Chose Renaissance Accelerated Reader n/a Incentivized Helpful?	Renaissance Learning Athena Ogden Teacher at Forest Grove School (Facilities Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Renaissance Star Assessments Renaissance Star Assessments, Renaissance Accelerated Reader, and Renaissance myOn have been hands down the best products for student success that I have evaluated in the past six years of use. All show the importance of data and data implementation processes within and outside … Incentivized Helpful? Alma Escamilla Teacher at La Joya ISD (Education Management, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Renaissance Star Assessments We use state assessments while I love using Renaissance Star, it is more independent. For 1st graders, are not independent and it is overwhelming. The State testing is broken down into parts and allows the students to slowly work towards reading and comprehension. There is a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Renaissance Star Assessments They are good products to use for our campus. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Renaissance Star Assessments Accelerated Reader goes hand-in hand with Renaissance Star Assessments assessments. The program dovetail into each other. The Renaissance Star Assessments informs the student, parent, and teacher what level a child is reading and appropriate materials can be used that are in a … Incentivized Helpful? Sarah Burris 1st Grade Teacher at Southwestern Christian School (Education Management, 11-50 employees) Chose Renaissance Star Assessments AR complements the Star Assessments by then giving you tools for testing on individual books in the classroom. When students get a reading level, they then choose books at their level and then test on it. This gives you direct feedback on how well the students are … Incentivized Helpful? Rita Platt Principal, Educational Consultant, Graduate Course Instructor at St. Croix Falls SD, Minneapolis Public Schools, Professional Development Institute (Education Management, 51-200 employees) Chose Renaissance Star Assessments The other assessments are helpful too. However, the first two are not as easy to administer and the last is VERY expensive and the reports are hard to follow. Incentivized Helpful? JESSICA MARTINDALE 6th Grade Teacher at Rialto Unified School District (Education Management, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Renaissance Star Assessments [My] organization has also worked at using iReady assessments which are a quicker test and a little bit more student friendly. We go back-and-forth between which one we want to use and it is up to the school sites. Incentivized Helpful? Kerri Ziegler NEMS Sped Dept. Chair at Noblesville Schools (Primary/Secondary Education, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Renaissance Star Assessments They are two different products so it is difficult to compare them. We use STAR assessments to progress monitor. Accelerated Reader helps track what books students have read, if they comprehended them, and allows them to earn points. The Accelerated Reader is a better fit … Incentivized Helpful? Vanessa Brown Elementary school Teacher at Selma City Schools (Education Management, 51-200 employees) Chose Renaissance Star Assessments All three of these programs are part of the Renaissance program and work great together. Students use myON to read and then Accelerated Reader to test their reading comprehension. They also use Star to determine which texts to select to read. Star also shows them how much … Incentivized Helpful? Shonda Hill Teacher in Professional Services at Venice Christian school (Education Management, 11-50 employees) Chose Renaissance Star Assessments they are all great and so helpful Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Renaissance Star Assessments This is the only program of its kind that I have used. Incentivized Helpful? Mario Sanchez Teacher at PSJA ISD (Primary/Secondary Education, 51-200 employees) Chose Renaissance Star Assessments It is easy to use and the reports are easy to understand. You can show results to students and make a plan on how to improve Incentivized Helpful? Gengie Wiedenfeld Librarian/College Professor at Notre Dame Catholic School (Pre-K - 8)/Alamo Community College (Education Management, 11-50 employees) Chose Renaissance Star Assessments I prefer the Star, but if the archdiocese goes with this product, we will too.None Incentivized Helpful? Jennifer Bunn Grades 1-3 Teacher, Gr. 4K-8 Art Teacher, Gr. 1-8 Music Teacher at St. John Lutheran School (Education Management, 1-10 employees) Chose Renaissance Star Assessments STAR Reading and Accelerated Reader 360 work together to provide all you need for reading assessment and making and achieving goals in independent reading. Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	Renaissance Accelerated Reader	Renaissance Star Assessments
Likelihood to Recommend	9.9 (65 ratings)	8.7 (71 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.1 (9 ratings)	9.1 (9 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (9 ratings)	9.2 (9 ratings)
Availability	9.1 (2 ratings)	8.2 (2 ratings)
Performance	9.1 (2 ratings)	8.2 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	9.0 (25 ratings)	9.1 (15 ratings)
Online Training	- (0 ratings)	7.3 (1 ratings)
Implementation Rating	5.5 (6 ratings)	8.2 (4 ratings)
Configurability	6.4 (2 ratings)	9.1 (2 ratings)
Ease of integration	4.5 (2 ratings)	8.8 (3 ratings)
Product Scalability	9.1 (2 ratings)	8.2 (2 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	9.1 (2 ratings)	8.2 (2 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	9.1 (2 ratings)	8.2 (2 ratings)